Is church arson really a part of hating crimes? Church arson is connected to hate crime in these ways: it is a visceral and involuntary reaction. ““It must be arson.” “It must be the handy work of some white supremacist.”” This is what comes to minds across America when the news shows that another church in the south has been burnt down. The NAACP has only acknowledged three of the six recent fires were suspected arsons, called for vigilance, saying the blazes require “our collective attention”.
What sparked the church arson fires was that on June 17, 2015 Dylann Roof shot and killed nine members of the Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. A few days later black churches began burning across the south. “The